Conclusion

The Sennheiser HD 25-1-II Adidas Originals headphones offer great sound quality, but are heinous in every other respect. As such, we can't recommend them. If you can stretch to an extra £50, you'll be able to afford the shockingly beautiful and well-crafted Bowers & Wilkins P5s. If you can't afford those, check out the bass-heavy Monster Beats by Dr Dre Solos instead. They're available for around £150.

No it isnt, you can totally adjust the pressure by spliting the headband, and as for the clamp force, it wears out.

oh god! what is that?

and look at his conclusion:

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Conclusion

The Sennheiser HD 25-1-II Adidas Originals headphones offer great sound quality, but are heinous in every other respect. As such, we can't recommend them. If you can stretch to an extra £50, you'll be able to afford the shockingly beautiful and well-crafted Bowers & Wilkins P5s. If you can't afford those, check out the bass-heavy Monster Beats by Dr Dre Solos instead. They're available for around £150.

Edited by Charles Kloet

I've just read that review and it sounds fair, maybe a bit emphatic but the points are valid. Yes you can reduce the head clamp with use and stretch (utilising some chunky books) but should you have to? I realise that sound quality is paramount, but would would a little polish to the aesthetics hurt? Smooth those ruff edges? Use a material that is a little less plasticky? Further, I think £200 for the adidas version of those cans is ridiculous (I just ordered a pair of regular HD25-1-IIs for £140 for example, £60 difference?!).

I'd ask Sennheiser to release a more expensive aesthetically pleasing version but given that it's already £60 for a splash of blue, we'd be approaching colorware pricing for anything else :P

*EDIT* I do wish he hadn't mentioned the beats though... that really did throw away any credibility haha.